Tom Guilfoy Memorial Craftsmanship Award
Created in 1996, this annual award was in memory of Tom Guilfoy, owner of 100 year old Guilfoy Cornice Works in San Francisco. This award is for any project where attention to detail and expertise was critical to the project and exemplifies teamwork between sheet metal workers and the contractor and the contractor and owner.
This award is presented annually for any type of work in the HVAC, Specialty, Industrial, Kitchen or Architectural fields. Projects entered will be judged on the skill and expertise exhibited to complete the project, regardless of how big or small. There are two main categories – mechanical and architectural, along with a creative concepts category to recognize exceptional projects falling outside of the mechanical and architectural categories.
2026 Guilfoy Award Submissions for Projects Completed in 2025
2026 Winner – Architectural Category
The 2026 Tom Guilfoy Craftsmanship Award in the Architectural category was awarded to CMF for the Los Angeles International Airport People Mover project located in Los Angeles, California.
The winning project was selected for the workmanship, collaboration, the technical and logistical challenges, and complexity of the project.
CMF developed a comprehensive 3D BIM model as the foundation for cross-trade coordination. Only after the digital geometry was validated were façade shop drawings generated directly from the approved model. This ensured perfect alignment between 3D models, 2D elevations, and fabrication details, all sharing consistent reference dimension points for precise coordination.
This project required fabrication of over 17,400 EVO panels, ranging in size from 1 square foot to 32 square feet. One of the logistical challenges was that this project was in five locations with the farthest points 2.5 miles apart and included 5 train stations and 10 pedestrian walkways.
This project took five years, due to COVID, and 285,445 man hours with over 500 change orders, many for custom fabricated and installed materials throughout the stations.
Number of Man Hours Spent: 285,445
2026 Winner – Mechanical Category
The 2026 Tom Guilfoy Craftsmanship award in the Mechanical category was awarded to Control Air Enterprises for the City of Hope Orange County Hospital project in Orange, CA.
This winner was chosen due to the project’s complexity, collaboration, and craftsmanship.
The PowerPoint presentation really showcased how challenging and important the coordination was for this project.
The building had limited roof space for the air handlers so the contractor had to be creative in how to place them. The interior was 14 feet floor to floor so ceiling space was very congested.
Control Air Enterprises solved the limited roof space issue by stacking the air handlers and elevating the ductwork on the roof to create a full walking access path beneath all the ductwork.
This project took 16,000+ hours for sheet metal detailing, 9,000+ shop hours and 38,000+ field hours and 333,000 pounds of ductwork.
Number of Man Hours Spent: 38,000+
Past recipients of this award include:
2025 Architectural – California Sheet Metal – Bioterra Lifescience Building, San Diego, CA
Mechanical – Southland Industries, Inc. – Intuit Dome project, Ingelwood, CA
2024 Architectural – VNSM – Regional Connector Transportation Corridor, Los Angeles, CA
Mechanical – Control Air Enterprises – UCSF Zuckerberg General Pride Hall, San Francisco, CA
2023 Architectural – California Sheet Metal – The Grand LA, Los Angeles, CA
Mechanical – ACCO Engineered Systems – The Grand LA, Los Angeles, CA
Creative Concept – G.E.S. Sheet Metal – MLK Child and Family Wellbeing Center, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Architectural – VNSM – Disney Avengers Campus, Anaheim, CA
Mechanical – Southland Industries, Inc. – Bayside Campus, Mountain View, CA
Creative Concept – CMF, Inc. – Ruby’s Diner, Brea, CA
2021 Architectural – California Sheet Metal – Seritage at UTC, San Diego, CA
Creative Concepts– Therma – Sheet Metal Workers’ Local 104 Livermore Hall, Livermore, CA
2020 Architectural – California Sheet Metal – UTC Residential Tower, San Diego, CA
Mechanical – Southland Industries, Inc. – Gilead NB324, Foster City, CA
2019 Architectural –CMF, Inc.– Cal Poly Pomona Student Services Building, Pomona, CA
Mechanical – Southland Industries, Inc.– Sutter Health CPMC Van Ness Campus Hospital, San Francisco, CA
2018 Architectural –CMF, Inc.– Apple Park, Cupertino, CA
Mechanical – ACCO Engineered Systems– USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Architectural –California Sheet Metal– Eli Lilly at Campus Pointe, San Diego, CA
Mechanical – University Mechanical & Engineering Contractors– UC San Diego, Jacobs Medical Center, La Jolla, CA
2016 Architectural –G.E.S. Sheet Metal– IAC Building, West Hollywood, CA
Mechanical – Control Air North, Inc.– Samsung American Headquarters, San Jose, CA
2015 ACCO Engineered Systems– Levi Stadium Home of the San Francisco 49ers, Santa Clara, CA
2014 Architectural –California Sheet Metal– San Diego Central New Library, San Diego, CA
Mechanical – Control Air North, Inc.– Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, Oakland, CA
2013 Architectural –Air Systems of Sacramento– William Jessup University Expansion, Rocklin, CA
Mechanical – ACCO Engineered Systems– Cedars Sinai Advanced Health Science Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Architectural –Brady Air Conditioning, Inc.– 1905 Samuel Murphy Windmill Restoration Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Mechanical– Control Air North, Inc.– Li Ka-Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences at UC Berkley, Berkley, CA
2011 Architectural –CMF, Inc.– Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA
Mechanical – Key Air Conditioning, Inc.– Tom Bradley International Interior Improvement, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Architectural –Air Systems, Inc.– Target Store, Sunnyvale, CA
Mechanical – Marelich Mechanical, Inc.– GLAVC Veterans Home of California, West Los Angeles, CA
2009 CMF, Inc.– Los Angeles High School #9 for the Visual and Performing Arts, Central Los Angeles, CA
2008 Control Air North, Inc.– California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
2007 Air Systems Inc.– Harborwalk Condominiums, Oakland, CA
2006 Weiss Sheet Metal Company– Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA
2005 Custom Metal Fabricators, Inc.– Millennium Park BP Pedestrian Bridge, Chicago, IL